Technical Note: Unable to enter DHCP option 138 from the GUI

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Description

The message "Option is in use as a DHCP setting" may be seen when attempting to set as DHCP option 138.

Solution

A workaround is to use the following CLI commands to enter DHCP option 138.

For example, to configure option 138 with value 192.168.1.1, the command line would be:

config system dhcp server
edit <dhcpservername>
set option1 138 C0A80101

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